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him a rough, uncouth, illiterate backwoodsman and low type of politician, to be likened (as he was frequently) to a "nigger" or ape, rather than to such statesmen as Washington, Jefferson or Adams, and that he was entirely unworthy and beneath the Presidency. The impression was far more unfortunate then than something of the same estimate of Jackson by the Federalists had been in his day, and in its way had an effect in hastening the Rebellion. But the simple character and humble antecedents of Lincoln had no such effect in the North. Here they appealed directly to the sympathy and favor of the masses. The people only the more highly honored honest old Abe," because he was a pioneer, farm laborer, flatboatman, and keen country politician," and saw in him a true representative of their early condition. As the successful lawyer, legislator, and public debater of questions involving the highest statesmanship, in later years, he was the admired ideal of their own best aspirations, and history records how abundantly he justified their confidence.

Speaking of the great attendance at the Chicago Convention the Press and Tribune, of that city, says: "A very careful and ac

curate count was made of the number of persons in the Wigwam at the time the balloting for President was taking place. It resulted as follows: In the galleries, 3.550; on the stand, 950; under the galleries, 5,870; on the stairs, 650; within the railing, 1,100. Outside were 12,000 more, making the whole number of persons, in the Wigwam and immediately around it, fully

24.000."

The Republicans of Ohio were well pleased with Lincoln's nomination. An immense ratification meeting was held at

the west front of the State House, on Tuesday evening, May 21st. Governor Dennison presided, and he and ex-Governor Chase made the principal speeches. Willard Warner, Samuel Galloway, Charles Giffin, of Licking, Alfred P. Stone and Richard L. P. Baber also made addresses. Governor Dennison spoke briefly, both in introducing Mr. Chase and in closing the meeting, which is described by a local paper, as the greatest ratification ever given a candidate in Columbus. The crowd went wild in its enthusiasm for Honest Old Abe.'" Another ratification meeting was held at the same place on Friday night, June 1st. A third grand Republican rally was held under the auspices of the Lincoln Wide Awakes, on Tuesday evening, June 12th. At this meeting their wigwam was dedicated. This was the old theater building on State street, the interior of which was altered to meet the purposes of the club, with reading rooms and a fine auditorium, with galleries, dress circle and parquet, and other conveniences. towering Lincoln pole was raised in front of the building, and a most enthusiastic and successful campaign was inaugurated by the new association. The wigwam had a seating capacity of about 1,500, and the Republican

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State Convention and numerous other meetings were held in it.

Convention was issued May 2d. The call for the second Republican State It notified the public that the Convention would be held at Columbus beginning at ten o'clock on the morning of Wednesday, June 13th, to nominate candidates for Supreme Judge, Attorney

General, Member of the Board of Public

Works, and a full electoral ticket. All were cordially invited who were attached to the principles of the Republican party, and all who desired the election of an honest and

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John L. Palmer, of Hancock, was elected Temporary Chairman, and Joseph C. Devin, of Knox, Charles Calkins, of Darke, Charles H. Grosvenor, of Athens, and Addison P. Miller, of Ross, Secretaries. Judge Palmer said this was the first Republican Convention he had ever attended. He had voted for Buchanan in 1856, but that he hoped "God had forgiven him that sin." His speech was warmly applauded, and then the usual Committees were appointed, as follows:

Credentials: 1. Daniel W. C. Shockley, Hamilton. 2. Michael Goepper, Hamilton. 3. George W. Thompson, Butler. 4. Matthew C. Hale, Shelby. 5. Charles W. O'Neal, Hancock. 6. William R. Smith, Chairman, Highland. 7. William Miner, Warren. 8. Abraham Thomson, Delaware. 9. Conduce H. Gatch, Hardin. 10. Wells S. Jones, Pike. 11. Alexander C. Sands, Vinton. 12. Charles B. Mason, Pickaway. 13. Frank Sawyer, Huron. 14. G. O. Chatfield, Medina. 15. Lorenzo C. Davis, Tuscarawas. 16. Samuel B. Robinson, Washington. 17. Charles Phillips, Noble. George Harsh, Stark. 19. Edward Spencer, Geauga. 20. Hiram E. Parsons, Ashtabula. 21. J. Twing Brooks, Columbiana.

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Permanent Organization; I. Moritz Jacobi, Hamilton. 2. George W. Runyan, Hamilton. 3. L. B. Britt, Montgomery. 4. Barton S. Kyle, Miami. 5. Samuel A. Raymond, Lucas. 6. Thomas D. Fitch, Clermont. 7. Henry W. Smith, Madison. 8. James Walker, Logan. 9. Robert G. Pennington, Seneca. IO. Addison P. Miller, Ross. 11. James Taylor, Perry. 12. Orange Johnson, Franklin. Goodwin, Erie. 14. Martin Welker, Wayne. 15. William R. Sapp, Knox. 16. John Haynes, Muskingum. 17. Benjamin R. Cowen, Belmont. 18. Alvin C. Voris, Summit. 19. Albert G. Riddle, Cuyahoga. 20. George Pow, Mahoning. 21. George Hardesty, Carroll.

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Resolutions: 1. Aaron F. Perry, Hamilton. 2. Theophilus Gaines, Hamilton. 3. Nathaniel C. McFarland, Butler. 4. Timothy E. Cunningham, Allen. 5. Asher Cooke, Wood. 6. Orange Edwards, Brown. 7. Edward F. Drake, Greene. 8. George H. Frey, Clarke. 9. Homer Everett, Sandusky. 10. George A. Waller, Scioto. II. Moses M. Green, Athens. 12. Charles B. Giffin, Licking. 13. Isaac Gass, Richland. 14. James Monroe, Chairman, Lorain. 15. Joseph W. Vance, Knox. 16. John A. Blair, Muskingum. 17. John A. Davenport, Monroe. 18. James A. Garfield, Portage. 19. 19. William L. Perkins, Lake. 20. Lucian C. Jones, Trumbull. 21. Samuel B. Shotwell, Harrison.

At the afternoon session the permanent organization was reported, as follows: President: Ephraim R. Eckley, of Car

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Vice Presidents: 1. James M. Gitchell, Hamilton. 2. John B. Davis, Hamilton. 3. Herman Gebhart, Montgomery. 4. Philip V. Herzing. Auglaize. 5. Joseph Cable,

Van Wert. 6. Andrew B. Emrie, Clermont. 7. William Miner, Warren. 8. William H. West, Logan. 9. Robert W. Musgrave, Crawford. 10. Samuel M. Penn, Ross. II. Henry L. Culver, Hocking. 12. Luther Donaldson, Franklin. 13. Isaac Gass, Richland. 14. James W. Smith, Ashland. 15. John C. Winn, Coshocton. 16. James F. Adair, Morgan. 17. John C. Tallman, Belmont. 18. Thomas Earl, Summit. Taylor, Cuyahoga. 20. Joshua R. Giddings, Ashtabula. 21. Thomas B. Scott, Jefferson.

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Secretaries: Benjamin R. Cowen, of Belmont; Joseph C. Devin, of Knox; Charles H. Grosvenor, of Athens; Addison P. Miller, of Ross; Charles Calkins, of Darke; James F. Price, of Wood; John W. Caldwell, of Hamilton; Dudley W. Rhodes, of Delaware.

The new State Committees reported were as follows:

Executive Committee: George M. Parsons, Chairman; William T. Bascom, Secretary; Richard L. P. Baber, Samuel Galloway, Theodore Comstock, James H. Coulter, and John Miller, all of Columbus.

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Central Committee: At large, Joshua R. Giddings, of Ashtabula, and Richard M. Corwine, of Hamilton. 1. Charles E. Cist, Hamilton. 2. Peter Zinn, Hamilton. John L. Martin, Butler. 4. John Walkup, Auglaize. 5. Richard Mott, Lucas. 6. William R. Smith, Highland. 7. Henry W. Smith, Madison. 8. Abraham Thomson, Delaware. 9. Henry C. Carhart, Crawford. 10. George A. Waller, Scioto. 11. James W. McBeth, Vinton. 12. J. C. Thompson, Pickaway. 13. Rush R. Sloane, Erie. 14. Martin Welker, Wayne. 15. Joseph W. Dwyer, Coshocton. 16. Daniel Applegate, Muskingum. 17. James C. Douglas, Guernsey. 18. Charles R. Price, Summit. 19. John

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The Convention then proceeded to the order of nominations. For Supreme Judge, Jacob Brinkerhoff, of Richland; Noah H. Swayne, of Franklin; William Lawrence, of Logan, and Charles B. Goddard, of Muskingum, were presented. Judge Brinkerhoff was nominated on the first ballot. which resulted: Brinkerhoff 251, Swayne 113, Lawrence 81, and Goddard 14.

For Member of the Board of Public Works, Levi Sargent, of Tuscarawas, was nominated on the first baliot. He received 247 votes; Kent Jarvis, of Stark. 85. Francis M. Case, of Williams, 36; Jac b Winters. of Licking, 34; John Carlisic, of Onyanga,

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6; Moses J. Becker, of Knox, 1, and Sey- sional Conventions. The ticket was subsemour Stephens, of Huron, 1.

Two ballots were taken in the nomination for Attorney General. The first resulted: Richard M. Corwine, of Hamilton, 130; James Murray, of Wood, 78; Samuel E. Browne, of Miami, 62; Jacob D. Cox, of Trumbull, 52; Stanley O. Griswold, of Cuyahoga, 50; James H. McMath, of Harrison, 40; Samuel D. Burt, of Lorain, 34; George R. Sage, of Warren, 14. The names of Cox, McMath, Burt and Sage were withdrawn and the second ballot resulted: Murray 254, Corwine 172, Griswold 34.

For Presidential Electors-at-Large, the roll of the counties was called and Frederick Hassaurek, of Hamilton, received the unanimous vote of the Convention. Joseph M. Root, of Erie, and Columbus Delano, of Knox, were then presented, and the first ballot resulted in Mr. Root's nomination, -Root 266 votes, Delano 186. Nominations for Presidential Electors by Congresssional districts were also announced, and confirmed by vote of the Convention-the only time in the party's history such proceedings are recorded-as follows:

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1. Benjamin Eggleston, Hamilton. William M. Dickson, Hamilton. 3. Frank McWhinery, Preble. 4. John Riley Knox, Darke. 6. Daniel H. Murphy, Brown. 7. Nelson Rush, Fayette. 9. John F. Hinkle, Hardin. 10. Hezekiah S. Bundy, Jackson. 11. Daniel B. Stewart, Athens. 14. Willard Slocum, Ashland. 15. Joseph Ankeny, Holmes. 16. Edward Ball, Muskingum. 17. John A. Davenport, Monroe. 19. Samuel B. Philbrick, Geauga.

The Fifth, Eighth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Eighteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-first districts reported no candidates, preferring to make nominations at their Congres

quently completed by the addition of the following names: 5. Dresam W. H. Howard, Fulton: 8. Abraham Thomson, Delaware. 12. Richard P. L. Baber, Franklin. 13. John Beatty, Morrow. 18. William H. Upham, Summit. 20. George W. Brooke, Cuyahoga. 21. Norman K. Mackenzie, Columbiana. Mr. Murphy having been nominated for Congress, declined the nomination for Elector, and John M. Kellum, of Clermont, was subsequently chosen.

THE DELEGATES.

The following is the list of delegates reported to the Convention by the Committee on Credentials:

First Congressional District-James M. Gitchell, Edward F. Noyes, Morritz Jacobi, Arthur Heise, Benjamin Eggleston, James M. Kirby, Robert W. Field, Isaac E. West, William Henry Smith, Richard M. Corwine, Daniel W. C. Shockley, Frederick Hassaurek, Matthew Shaul, Charles E. Cist, of Hamilton County.

Second District Michael Goepper, George W. Runyan, Theophilus Gaines, John B. Davis, Peter Zinn, John W. Caldwell, H. G. Armstrong, Warner M. Bateman, Rutherford B. Hayes, of Hamilton County.

Third District-Nathaniel C. McFarland, Ransford Smith, John Cox, Jacob A. Zeller, L. B. Britt, Isaac Gardner, of Butler. Samuel Martindale, Henry Heistead, Benico Tharp, Washington McCrea, WillJam Wall, Samuel Bolton, Charles Bolton, Herman Gebhart, Edwin A. Parrott, James M. Cumback, John McReynolds, Walter N. Maxwell, of Montgomery. Jesse Stubbs, Frank McWhinery, Daniel Sherman, Lewis B. Ogden, John W. Thompson, of Preble.

Fourth District T. E. Cunningham, Horace Bixbv, of Ailen. Philip V. Herzing, of Auglaize. Jonathan Cranor, Charles Calkins, Henry Snell, John Riley Knox, Edward B. Taylor, Andrew L. Northrop, of Darke. Wiliam McCullough, John E. Cummins, Matthew C. Hale, of Sheibv.

Fifth District-David Taylor, of Defiance. Moses R. Brailey, John C. French, George Laskey, of Fulton. John L. Paimer, John Eckells, Robert H. Bennett, Charies W. O'Neal, of Hancock. Jesse Durbin, Caspar Heering, of Henry. Samuel A. Reynolds,

Andrew P. Dillon, Lyman Parcher, Samuel M. Young, Peleg T. Clark, James McCabe, Jr., Osborne Pretty, of Lucas. John W. Ayers, A. Sankey Latty, of Paulding. L. W. Poe, George W. Britton, of Putnam. Joseph Cable, John G. Gilliam, Francis M. Upshur, of Williams. Asher Cook, James F. Price, Elijah Graham, Erastus D. Peck, of Wood.

Sixth District-John T. Wilson, William W. West, of Adams. James M. Bradford, William T. Thompson, Orange Edwards, William S. Osborn, of Brown. Andrew B. Emrie, Thomas D. Fitch, Louis A. Logan, Alexander Smith, Charles Burckhardt, William Ulrey, Abraham Teetor, of Clermont. William Town, William R. Smith, Arthur Noble, James Richards, George W. Bundy, of Highland.

Seventh District-Azariah W. Doan, James R. Walker, Charles N. Osborn, John M. Hayworth, of Clinton. James W. Blizzard, Daniel McLane, Samuel N. Yeoman, of Fayette. Whitelaw Reid, Edward F. Drake, Henry P. Galloway, John F. Patton, John Chattoner, Isaac M. Barrett, of Greene. William H. Beach, Henry W. Smith, Robert Cowling, of Madison. Horace M. Stokes, Coates Kinney, John Gallaher, Anson Antrim, George R. Sage, William Miner, Joseph Warwick, of Warren.

Eighth District-Ephraim L. Small, Solomon G. Brecount, Anson P. Howard, John Russell, of Champaign. Anthony Byrd, Samuel A. Bowman, M. Y. Houston, T. M. Gordon, Alexander Waddle, George H. Frey, of Clarke. Abraham Thomson, John Cunningham, James H. Humphrey, Isaac Monroe, Robert Faris, Henry J. Jarvis, of Delaware. William Lawrence, Charles W. B. Allison, Joseph Walker, William H. West, William Parker, of Logan. Hylas Sabine, B. P. Cole, James W. Robinson, of Union.

Ninth District-Henry C. Carhart, Robert W. Musgrave, Stephen R. Harris, Jacob Scroggs, of Crawford. Robert. D. Miller, Samuel Cranor, Conduce H. Gatch, of Hardin. James C. Johnson, John E. Davids, Benjamin V. Pettitt, of Marion. Samuel A. Smith, of Ottawa. William S. Russell, Homer Everett, Isaac M. Keeler, Henry W. Winsborn, of Sandusky. Robert G. Pennington, Charles Foster, Francis G. De Wolf, Benjamin D. Flinn, William P. White, James M. Stevens, of Seneca. George W. Leith, James K. Agnew, Samuel White, William S. Wilson, of Wyandot.

Tenth District-Charles C. Rowe, Thomas W. Higgins, of Gallia. Thomas R. Matthews, William D. Higgins, of Jackson. Henry S. Neal, Cyrus Ellison, Charles D. Brooke, James Hamilton, of Lawrence. Andrew Kilgore, Wells S. Jones, of Pike. Addison P. Miller, Thomas Beach, Thomas J. Gwinn, Edward F. Lewis, Joseph A. Mills, Samuel M. Penn, of Ross.

Charles A. Barton, John Jackson, George A. Waller, Samuel P. Drake, of Scioto.

Eleventh District-Moses M. Greene, Charles H. Grosvenor, Joseph L. Currier, Joseph D. Kessinger, Leonard Brown, of Athens. James W. Pierce, Carl Huber, Vernon E. Shaw, of Fairfield. Henry L. Culver, Conrad Bryan, of Hocking. Horace S. Horton, George B. Grow, of Meigs. Andrew M. Huston, John D. Webster, James Taylor, of Perry. Alexander C. Sands, James Sands, James W. McBeth, of Vinton.

Twelfth District-John W. Hamilton, Luther Donaldson, Benjamin F. Martin, Nathaniel Merion, Richard P. L. Baber, John Fields, Orange Johnson, Horton Howard, Arthur O'Harra, of Franklin. Presley O'Bannon, Charles B. Giffin, Lyman Beecher, Thomas Dickinson, Arthur C. Clark, John A. Sinnett, Hiram Wright, Isaac Smucker, of Licking. John Cochran, Samuel H. Moore, Nathaniel J. Turney, Charles B. Mason, of Pickaway.

Thirteenth District-Thomas C. McEwan, Henry C. Goodman, Charles B. Choate, Matthew Saxton, Rush R. Sloane, of Erie. Franklin Sawyer, John Barnes, Robert McCune, George H. Woodruff, Moses P. Wright, Samuel W. Edwards, Ira Liggett, of Huron. William F. Bartlett, Josiah Horr, George G. Hackedorn, Smith Thomas, William A. Shank, of Morrow. David Anderson, Benjamin Gass, Z. S. Stocking, David Hornbeck, Roeliff Brinkerhoff, Isaac Gass, William Patterson, of Richland.

Fourteenth District-William Osborn, Willard Slocum, James W. Smith, Andrew L. Curtis, Jacob Hildebrand, of Ashland. James Monroe, Nathaniel B. Bates, John M. Farricut, Walter F. Herrick, Joseph Swift, Jr., Lauren Beebe, Ralph Plumb, Edward G. Humaston, of Lorain. Samuel G. Barnard, Charles B. Chamberlain, Thompson Pierce, George Hutchins, Duncan D. Dowd, G. O. Chatfield, of Medina. Martin Welker, Frederick W. Firestone, William S. Pepper, Philip H. Newkirk, of Wayne.

Fifteenth District-Joseph W. Dwyer, Benjamin S. Church, James Wilson, James Carnes, John C. Winn, of Coshocton. Benjamin C. Brown, John Huston, of Holmes. William R. Sapp, John Rowley, Robert C. Kirk, Joseph C. Devin, John C. Irvine, Joseph Yeager, Joseph W. Vance, of Knox. Lemuel C. Davis, Charles H. Robinson, Virgil P. Wilson, Matthew Collier, Andrew Patrick, Samuel Foltz, Adam Ready, of Tuscarawas.

Sixteenth District-James A. Adair, Solomon C. Beckwith, Philip Kennedy, Thomas E. Van Low, Edward M. Lenhart, of Morgan. Edward Ball, John Haynes, Andrew C. Martin, Edward J. Trimble, John Q. Lane, John A. Blair, Daniel H. Willard, Daniel Van Vorhes, Zachary M. Chandler, of Muskingum.

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